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...Recently it has recommended Timothy D Snyder’s Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary and Roger L Martin’s When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency....
...“I’d never forget this party, ever, simply because it was the most beautiful. There was no electric light – everything was candles....
...Tiny and sprightly, with chunky silver jewellery and brightly coloured clothes, Teena looks like a pixie. It is hard to believe she is 61....
...We were already all designed, and my team was in place, so it was more a sort of layer above – the pixie dust.”...
...Meet Rylance’s drunken, delusional, drug-dealing outlaw on a dark street and you’d run a mile....
...I grew up near there and we’d go to the lake every summer with my parents....
...If you go to Walmart and ask anybody in Cheyenne, you know, whether or not the blockchain is paying their bills, I think you’d be hard pressed to find that yes....
...One might have thought that you’d seek evidence something worked before setting up a company....
...I’d just assumed that he’d want to because he’s a touchy-feely person and because he’d mentioned his lack of contact with other people....
...“Under normal circumstances, in this coming Q2, we’d expect to make some $4bn or more in operating profit,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive. “But these aren’t normal circumstances....
...My personal style signifier is my platinum pixie cut. I cut my hair short about seven years ago; it used to be red, but when I dyed it blonde people were like, “Oh my goodness, you can’t go back.”...
...But, simultaneously, I’d rather watch Holland do this rubbish than most movie actors....
...Haig, 43, is the bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet, six acclaimed novels including The Humans and The Radleys, and many books for children, most recently The Truth Pixie...
...I often felt I was the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of fashion. I felt my image was being co-opted and I tried to control how that happened....
...On Instagram, Pixie Geldof recently captioned photos of herself “Silly teeth forever”. Slick Woods, one of today’s buzziest models, has a gap between her front teeth big enough to show off her tongue....
...But most of all, WeWork needs to prove that it’s not fuelled by “Silicon Valley pixie dust”, in its float. Read the FT’s Eric Platt and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson story here....
...He might have meant my mother, although I doubt she’d go for these....
...France has not witnessed such a sense of renewal since 1974 when Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was elected president, aged 48....
...Such attention to discipline is welcome — and not only by investors, who have complained about R&D underperformance....
...Now, rivals seek to capture and bottle the Elon Musk pixie dust....
...Until then most things I’d seen had been in a frame. I appreciated the daring, the sense of jeopardy, which gets to something I’m drawn to: the pull of terror and joy.”...
...She’d been a child actress, first gaining recognition for a series of comic shorts, Tilly the Tomboy....
...Played solo on acoustic guitar, “Guns and Horses” evinced that catch in her voice that does owh-owh-odd things with syllables and makes it resemble a Celtic pixie’s....
...But still, pixie dust, right?...
...It was so powerful and just the feeling that somebody who’d been there before was clearing a little path in the brush for you.”...
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